Alexia Bedat

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Alexia’s clients range from podcast and audiobook production companies to documentary filmmakers, TV producers and studios. She supports content creators from early deal-making stages through to development and distribution and as clearance counsel.

Passionate about the audio industry, Alexia leads the Podcasts & Audio team at Klaris. She works closely with founders, heads of audio and producers across their slates, both in a business and legal affairs capacity. Her practice includes negotiating and drafting host deals, slate/first-look agreements, distribution and sales arrangements, IP development and adaptions and all forms of licensing and releases. She seeks to help content creators develop their IP responsibly and adapt to evolving technologies and emerging distribution models, always in the context of the unique collegial nature of the audio industry. As a bi-national herself (fluent in French and conversational Spanish), Alexia also works with non-US production companies on their US-facing deals.

Alexia is a regular speaker on trends and developments in the media & entertainment industries, with appearances in the US and abroad, including South by Southwest (SXSW), Rights Tech Summit, The Podcast Academy, The Podcast Show (London) and Paris Podcast Festival and guest spots on podcasts such as Podcasting Seriously and Podcast Perspectives.

Alexia holds a law degree from the University of Cambridge and an LL.M. from Columbia Law School. She is a member of several Media Law Resource Center Committees. Former Co-Chair of the Pre-Publication/Pre-Broadcast Committee and Co-Chair and founder of the Media Deals Committee and now member of the MLRC Executive Committee, she is a resource for transactional colleagues from the media bar and entertainment executives.

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